Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Linus

[Colin Walters]

On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 00:10, Tom Lord wrote:

> You have huge amounts of degrees of freedom here.  For example, there
> is nothing that says you can't restrict access to a local filesystem
> archive to an sftp (or any other) transport. 

Umm..yuck.  And you think that restricting writes to multiple-committer
archives (which will certainly be fairly common) to ssh is not ugly?
Especially given the fact that just a bit of general support in tla
would allow other important transports like file:// to work?

>  There's no good reason
> not to if it makes other things (like fine-grained access protection)
> easier.

But it doesn't make fine-grained access protection easier either.  Most
people will know how to leverage chown/chmod directories for access
control.  Many fewer will know how to hack up ssh subsystem scripts.

> Not that I've seen.

We're trying to show you.